Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM
HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $661,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($660,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $661k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Halifax International Security Forum does
Mission
Halifax internaitonal security forum (halifax) is a forum and a network for thoughtful and engaged decision-makers from governments, militaries, business, academia and the media to work together to meet emerging threats in a changing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Halifax International Security Forum is proud to be at the forefront of innovative and inclusive solutions to the world's security challenges. The forum, our flagship conference in halifax, nova scotia is recognized widely as north america's leading annual forum for the discussion of the world's most pressing security challenges. Halifax attracts senior politicians - including a significant delegation from the united states congress - top military commanders, strategists, thinkers, influential journalists, and business leaders from across the democratic world.
$5,134,980 spent84% of program spendingThe peace with women fellowship brings together senior active-duty women military officers from nato and nato-allied countries for a 3-week executive tour to meet senior politicians, military leaders, tech innovators and media luminaries in the united states and canada.
$393,210 spent6% of program spendingThe Halifax International Security Forum (hfx) is a leading global event where leaders, military officials, and experts discuss key security challenges, including geopolitics, cybersecurity, and democracy, fostering international cooperation for global stability and peace. Hfx taipei connecting key stakeholders and organizing activities including the city tour, press conference, forums, dinner sessions, night bar, 5k run and gala dinner, creating a platform for international dialogue and collaboration.
$464,903 spent8% of program spendingThe china program is a multi-year project outlining a new strategy for the united states and its allies across the globe to deal with the rising challenge from beijing.
$148,514 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,141,607.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $1.1M (−52%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 62% · 2019 62% · 2020 70% · 2021 76% · 2022 70% · 2023 65% · 2024 51% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Janice Gross Stein
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$105k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM?
- HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $661,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($660,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $661,000 in grants to HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $660,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HALIFAX INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing